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How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness – the Marginalian Inspiration
themarginalian.org 6 days ago

How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness – the Marginalian

Poet Ross Gay spent one year writing a miniature essay each day about a single delight - a hummingbird slipping its needle nose into a zinnia, a stranger's spontaneous high-five in an Indiana coffee shop, the honeybees in the linden trees "thick enough for me not only to hear...

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The Overlooked Ways Love Shows up in Urban Spaces Community
Greater Good 5 hours ago

The Overlooked Ways Love Shows up in Urban Spaces

Researcher Jacqueline Mattis has spent two decades studying something most urban narratives overlook entirely: the...

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity – the Marginalian Inspiration
themarginalian.org 9 hours ago

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity – the Marginalian

Solitude, as Buddhist scholar Stephen Batchelor understands it, is not an escape from life but a more honest way of...

How a South African Town Cleaned up Its Polluted River Using stones, Wood and Sand | Global Development | the... Environment
Guardian 11 hours ago

How a South African Town Cleaned up Its Polluted River Using stones, Wood and Sand | Global Development | the...

In a fast-expanding informal settlement outside Stellenbosch, South Africa, researchers have found a way to make a...

Told to Choose a ‘Safer’ Service, Anna Rajam George Became India’s First Woman Ias Officer Inspiration
The Better India 13 hours ago

Told to Choose a ‘Safer’ Service, Anna Rajam George Became India’s First Woman Ias Officer

Anna Rajam George did not ask for a different standard - she asked for the same one. When a four-member board advised...

The Unlikely Rise of the Sea Shanty Band Community
Positive News 17 hours ago

The Unlikely Rise of the Sea Shanty Band

Something old and salt-worn is finding its way back to people who need it. In coastal sheds and riverside pubs across...

One Way to Keep Childcare Affordable? Give Staff Free Housing Community
Reasons To Be Cheerful 19 hours ago

One Way to Keep Childcare Affordable? Give Staff Free Housing

When the Friends Center for Children surveyed its staff about their living situations in 2020, the results were...